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<span class=large>HABAKKUK</span>
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CHAPTER 1
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When Habakkah learned that the Lord raised up the Chaldeans to overrun the land of Israel, he was troubled that the wicked could be thus employed.
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The</span> burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
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O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/1/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 121: 2 (1-3).">how</a> long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!  <i>even</i> cry out unto thee <i>of</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="hab/1/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Micah 6: 12.">violence</a>, and thou wilt not save!
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Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause <i>me</i> to behold grievance?  for spoiling and violence <i>are</i> before me: and there are <i>that</i> raise up <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/1/3a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Strife.">strife</a> and contention.
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Therefore the law <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/1/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB grows cold."><i>is</i></a> slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
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&#182; Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for <i>I</i> will work a <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/1/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Acts 13: 41 (40-41).">work</a> in your days, <i>which</i> ye will not believe, though it be told <i>you.</i>
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For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, <i>that</i> bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces <i>that are</i> not theirs.
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They <i>are</i> terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/1/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR are of their own making.">shall</a> proceed of themselves.
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Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle <i>that</i> hasteth to eat.
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They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up <i>as</i> the east wind, and they shall gather <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/1/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR captives.">the</a> captivity as the sand.
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And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
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Then shall <i>his</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/1/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mind.">mind</a> change, and he shall pass over, and offend, <i>imputing</i> this his power unto his god.
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&#182; <i>Art</i> thou not from everlasting, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> my God, mine Holy One?  we shall not die.  O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
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<i>Thou art</i> of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, <i>and</i> holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth <i>the man that is</i> more righteous than he?
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And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, <i>that have</i> no ruler over them?
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They take up all of them with the <sup>a</sup><a href="hab/1/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR hook.">angle</a>, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their <sup>b</sup><a href="hab/1/15b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR net.">drag</a>: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
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Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion <i>is</i> fat, and their meat plenteous.
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Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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